why does my workspace variable viewer not display my 2d array as table anymore in R2016b on a mac?

If I run a simple:

a = rand(4,10)

and then open it in the workspace variable viewer. Before I could see the variable data as a 2D table array. now it displays as a character - the same as in the cmd window. This prevents me from making manual changes to individual cells like before?

How can I change this back to the older version of MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/321643-variables-editor-shows-only-string-no-editing-possibility-how-to-fix

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/316152-2016b-variables-not-displayed-as-spreadsheet

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

To find out which, if any, of your m-files overload the built-in MATLAB functions, see the attached program.

Answer 3

[Neel Savani]

I wish it were possible to

>> restordefaultpath

Unfortunately, I had to make changes to my .tcshrc to enable the solarsoft package to operate in IDL. This has lead to error messages when running restordefaultpath. Now I am not sure what to do?

Anyone else have similar install complications for both IDL and MATLAB? This is my error message in MATLAB:

Error using restoredefaultpath (line 42)
System error: SSW  setup will include: <gen secchi lasco aia hmi swpc_cat>

Type <sswidl> to start SSW IDL
Unmatched ".
sswidl: No such file or directory.
Unmatched ".

Command executed: "SSW  setup will include: <gen secchi lasco aia hmi swpc_cat>

Type <sswidl> to start SSW IDL
/usr/bin/perl" "/Applications/MATLAB_R2016b.app/toolbox/local/getphlpaths.pl"
"/Applications/MATLAB_R2016b.app"